Nonlinear quantum spectroscopy with parity–time-symmetric integrated circuits

Pawan Kumar; Sina Saravi; Thomas Pertsch; Frank Setzpfandt; Andrey A. Sukhorukov

doi:10.1364/PRJ.450410

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